NOTICE.
'I'HE
Motor
Seh.
Mystery
will- leave
Frederiksted
on
Sunday
morning
at9
o’clock sharp for San Juan,
P. R.,
via
St.
Thomas,
admitting
passengers
for
both
places.
All
passages
must
be
booked
not later
thaa
4 o’clock p.
wn.
the
previous
day.
THOS.
RAMSAY,
Agent.
LOCAL.
The District Court
was
in
session
yes-
terday.
In
a
case
of
larceny
involving
the
absconding
of
sugar
from the
store
of R. D.
Benjamin,
the (‘ourt sentenced
the offender to 5
years
hard
labor.
This
was
the
only
case
in
which
judgment
was passed
yesterday.
The
Communal
School
in
this
town
is undergoing
repairs,
the
wooden
gal-
lery
structures
of which
there
was
one
on
each
of
the
three
floors facing
the
street
being
replaced
with
concrete
work.
:
Back
steps
and
entrance
are
being
put in at the south
side
of
the
post
of-
fice building, and
we
are told
that
this
furnishes
a
long
felt need
dating
back
to
the
Danish
administration
when the
matter
was spoken
of but not carried
in-
to effect.
In
these
days
with mails
of
guadrupled
size and
frequency,
the
ab-
sence
of steps
at
the
rear
incurred
the
awkward necessity
of transporting
nu-
merous
sacks,
boxes,
ete.,
through
the
front room
to
the
annoyance
of
patrons
with- whom
the
lobby
is always crowd-
ed
on such
occasions.
With the impend-
ing changes
contemplated
to
meet
the
public
convenience
to a
far greater
ex-
tent
than
provided
under
existing
ar-
rangements,
the
old
way
would
have
been
fairly impossible,
not
to
speak
of
the
increased
facility
to
be
afforded
through
the mail
being received
in
and
dispatched
from the
work room.
The theatre
was not
so well patronised
last night as
the excellent
drama
screen-
ed
warranted.
It
was
certainly
a
fine film and
as
a
change
from
the
cus-
tomary
serials,
made
up
an
excellent
programme
for the night.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Paris,
March 15th.—Germany
was
yes-
terday
called
upon
by the Allied
repara
tion
commission
to
ecarry
out
article
235
of
the
Versaillies
Treaty
which
stipulates
Germany
must
pay
before
May
1921
the eguivalent
of
20,000,000
gold
marks.
The
treaty
provides
that
S
F.
v
2 X
AN
+his vayment
must
ba made
in gold,
com-
modities,
ships,
securities,
or
other
val
uables,
and
that
out
of
this
sum
the
expenses
of
the
armes
of occupation
are first
to
be
met.
'The commission
al-
so took steps
to carry
out
article
233
of
the treaty,
which provides
that
Germany
must
be
notified
before
May
Ist.
next
the
total
amount
of
war
damages
im-
posed
upon her by the treaty.
»
London,
Mareh
14th.—Replying
to
questions,
“ir Robert
Horne,
President
of
the
Board
of
[rade,
informed
the
House
of Commons
that
British
expor's
to
Germany
in
1920
were
valued
at
£21.000,000
and
impor‘s
from
Germany
£31,000,000
the
amount of
rthe latter
in
the last quarter of the
year
being double
that of the first quarter.
London,
March
14th.—
T'he
faval esti-
mates
for
192i-22
amount
to
£91,186,-
869
gross
and
£B2,
479,000
net,
1t was
announced
by
Lord
Lee,
First
Lord
of
the
Admiralty,
today.
In
a
suate
ment
explaining
the
estimates,
Lord
Lee said they
were based
on
the
Govern-
ment’s
poiicy
of
maintaining
a
‘‘one
power’’
standard.
It is
the
duty
of
the Admiralty
to
carry
out
that
policy
as
economically
as
possible,
giving
full
weight
to
she
sjecial
geographical,
international
and
other
eonsiderations,
which
have
arisen
since
(ie
war,
This
they
are doing
in
no
mechanical
spirit
nor with
insisience
upon
nuwmeri-
cal
equality, and
recogniz
ng
to the
fuli
the
necessity
of
reducing
expenditures
to
the lowest
li nits compatible
with
na-
tional
security.
Tre
Admiralty
bhave
effected
drastic
economies
and
have
agreed
to assume
risks
whieh in ordinary
cireumstances
they
weuld regard
as
d:ih
cult
to reconcile
with
full
mainienance
of the Govi’s. declared
policy
lord Lee
pointed
out that
the
economic
included
a
reduction
in
‘the
number
of
capi
tal
in
full
commissions
from
20
(o
16
as
compared
with
38
in
1914.
The
smallest
number
that
wili
ena-
ble
the
essential
seagoing
techni-
cal
training.cf
officers
and
men
to
be
carri>d
@ui ' properly.
Other
changes
announcéd,
are
the
placing
in
res .rve
of
one of the
four destroyer
flotillas of
the
Atlantic
Fleet.
reduction
of
the
North
American
and
South
African
squadrons
by
one
light
cruiser
each,
complete
tewmporary
withdrawal
of
the
South
American
squadron
and
the reduc-
tion
of the personnel
of
the fleet
during
1921
to
121,700
men
as
compared
wiih
127,500
men
in
1920.
these
changes,
dictatad
almost
entirely by the the
need
of
economy,
make
it incumbent
on
the
Admiralty
to maintain
a reduced
navy
1n
a state
of the highest
possible
efficiency.
Iu
pursuance
ci this poiicy 8 bactieships
armed
with 12 inch
uns,
now in reserve,
will
be iransferred
to the
disposal
list.
['he number
of capital ships
on the effec-
tive
list will thus be
reduced
to 33,
in-
cluding
the
Australian
oattie
cruiser
australia’’,
of
whieh
14
will
.be
in
reserve.
(i
taese
30
snhips.,
the
older
types are
no:coming
obsoleszent
ani
Can-
not
be
reckoned
as
eflicient
fighting
ships
for
more
inan a few
years
and
ihe
sum
of
£2,500,000
thcrefore
has
been
included
in
the
estimates
Jor
replace-
ment
ships.
[t
eaan>i
be
toy
stronzly
empnasized
that
1n
making
this
long
delayed
pbeginning
with the
replacement
of obsolere
ships,
the
Gove.
neitner
com-
mits
itsel?
to,
nor
coniemplares
any
building plans
in
answer
(o
those
of
any
other
power.
Indee
it
trusts
it may
be
possibie
as
a resuit
of frank
and triendly
discussion
witn
the
principal
naval
powers
to
avoid
anyihing
approach.ng
competitive
puilding,
either
vow
or
1n
the
ftuture.
But
in
the
meantime
U
would
be
a
dereliction
of duty
on
the
parc
of
the
Royval
navy
(o
detérioraie
through
- neglect
.to
provide
it
with
materiai
waicn
1s eguai
(0
tne best
and
in
which
iu
can
ieel
confidence.
lc
is
aiso
impera‘ive
to avoid
irrevocable
ioss
in
time
and
building
{acilities
which
might
nake
1t
impossible
to retain
oudr
securily
shoua'ld
it.be
threaiened.
Lord
Lee pointed
our
that
ihe estimates
show-
ed
a reduction
or
nore
than
£14,000,900
gross
and
£8,2560.000
aett
on
the
estl-
mates
ior {he
pirevious
year.
i'he
brsc
Lord
probabiv referred
to the
estimaies
beofre
tncy
were
revised.
lhe
nou-
recurrent
war
liapilities
or
term:nal
charges,
he
stated.
would
amount
o
about
€B, 250,000
tacluding
£3,150,000
:or
the compiaddoa
of ilght cruisers,
al:crafi
carriers,
dJdesiroyers
and
submarines
be
oyl
durins
the
war.
He
antieipaed
thar
very
few
changes
oi
(ils
#acure
would
remain
(o
be liquidated
aiter
‘o€
end
of
1922 - i'n2
estimmates
wnien
in-
clude
3,750,000
pounds
tfor
che
comrpie
tion” of
snivs
in
hand,
and
250000
pounds
for
ihe
replacement
of
obsvie-
scent
ships.
correspond,
afier
necessary
deductions
are
made
for
non-recurei
war
liabilliies
and
incraases
1n
prices,
vages,
peonsions,
efe.,
wiin the
pre.rar
figure: of 34,590,000
pounds
gross.
iae
aciual
figures
in 1914-1915
were
53,537
-
261
pounds,
consequently
there is
a
de-
crease
of 19,000,000
pounds/as
compared
with 1914-15.
.
New York.
JMarch
15th
—i'ne
raw
su-
gar
mirket
was quiet
eariy today.
No
business
was
reporced,
aal
prices
ware
nominai.
Porio
Rico’'s
were
offered
at
627
tor
centrifugal.
Refined
was
unchanged
at
8 cents
for
fine granulsced
T'he
volume
o: business
is light
and
re-
finers
are pretty
well
sold
up.
Futures
were quiet,
May,
ihe
only
wmonth traded
in,
was 3 points
lower a.
noon.
;
Berlin,
Marceh
15th.— lalsat
Pasha,
former
Grand
Vizier
and
Minister
of
Finance
of Turkey,
was
assassinated
in
Charlottenburg,
a
western
suburl
of
Beriin,
today.
He
was
shot
to
death.
The
murderer,
an
Armenias
student
was
arrested.
The
student
accosied